A Prince of Swindlers: The Simon Carne Collection

Before Raffles and Lupin there was Simon Carne

After the success of Dr Nikola, Guy Boothby created yet another bestselling series with Simon Carne, (with an alter ego as an eccentric detective Klimo), a gentleman thief whom one might say was in the Raffles mould, but who first appeared in Pearson's Magazine in 1897, predating Raffles by two years.